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Research on Kilcolman Church and Graveyard, Co. Offaly (Parish of Kilcolman, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 665.
Contains field sheet with details to level of preservation, nature of surviving structures and walls. Incl. sketches of site plan, interior and exterior elevations, a written report over four pages and 19 photographs.

Research on Letter Church, Co. Offaly (Parish of Letterluna, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 680.
Contains field sheet with sketches of site plan, interior and exterior elevations, a written report over three pages and 18 photographs.

Research on Lismoney Ecclesiastical Remains, Co. Offaly (Parish of Kinnitty, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 681.
Contains field sheet, a written report over two pages and four photographs.

Research on Castletown and Glinsk Castle Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Kinnitty, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 900.
Contains a field sheet, a written report over one page and one photograph.

Lease by Sir William Parsons to Matthew Hobart for parts of lands in Scurragh known by the name of Cowbawn and Broadpark and another part of lands of Cappaneal by the Duke's Square, for three lives and yearly rent of £5 5s. Includes hand drawn map.

Lease of part of the lands of Ballyduff from Edward Earl Digby to Edward Hacket for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1819, at the yearly rate of £5-19-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Ballyduff in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1819', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Charles Hacket, John and James Hacket and James Dunn.

Annual report and rental for year ending June 1870, containing general reports and accounts detailing the receipts and disbursement on the estate for the preceding year. Financial report is generally favourable. Drainage report outlines a reclamation project in Newtown between the railway and Tullamore Road. Also reports on 11 acres drained in Ballyduff for large tenant, Richard Odlum, 50 acres reclaimed in Ballinagar where previously marshes made the road from Ballinasloe unsafe for cattle, and the draining of Flynn's Moors in Derryweelan. Describes the success of the new sheep-washing pool formed in Lugmore main drain. Reports that it is used by almost everyone and that one of the largest tenants, Mr Ridgeway, proposed to wash 1110 sheep within one hour. The Trenchs came out at the appointed time, seats were provided for spectators 'and he won his bet easily with 7 minutes to spare.'

Referring to building improvements, 80 houses were changed from thatched roofs to slate, and the RASI awarded the Gold Medal for improving the greatest amount of cottages in the best manner in the province of Leinster. Woods and plantations report included details on the thinning of Derrygunnigan of large and useless timber, which was subsequently purchased by the Great Southern and Western Railway (5000 cubic feet of beech) but that the expense of drawing it across the bog to Tullamore detracted from the profits.

Also reports on 'peculiar violence and bloodshed in the surrounding district in counties' including the shooting in the face of Mr. Warburton, High Sherrif of Queen's County by a Mr Conroy, whose land, Mr Warburton had taken up. Describes an outrage on the other side of Geashill, where the same Mr Conroy attacked Mr O'Connor and cut his nose off while two other men held revolvers to his chest. 'Mr. O'Connor got an excellent nose to replace the one he had' and Conroy was sentenced to 14 years penal servitude. Other outrages included the brutal murder by Shields and his sister of a Mr Dunn - 'Very little excitement in the county and both were quietly hanged & buried within the precincts of the gaol.' Also includes further reports of attacks on gentry in Meath and Westmeath.